What is ALH?
Alliance of Lake Homeowners (ALH) is a newly established non-profit organization formed to unite Georgia's lake community associations. We are an organizatin within Georgia Lakes Society (GLS), and will seek strategies that deliver "triple bottom line" benefits - economic, social and environmental performance improvements. We have partnered with Georgia's environmental and conservation organizations to provide lake community associations with the tools and training to assess water and habitat quality for managing their community lake.

Georgia's community lakes are generally private and are neither maintained nor monitored by a governmental agency or a commercial enterprise. Many lakes are constructed as flood control and stormwater basins for their watershed, while many older lakes have become so by default. Failing surface water impoundment infrastructure and habitat and water quality degradation, due to development practices, are just two concerns we share as lake owners. We have the potential to form an alliance that represents well over 15,000 Georgia communities; working together we can make a difference.

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The EPA's Lake Survey Field Operation Manual is available. GLS and ALH are currently updating the Adopt-A-Lake (AAL) program and will be incorporating some of the EPA Lake Survey protocol. AAL revised program manual will be completed soon. Click here to download EPA's 11mb pdf manual.

Your support is required to unite Georgia's lake community associations to preserve and protect our lakes! Our launch goal is participation in all of Georgia's 14 main watersheds.   Local shore sweeps are posted at Rivers Alive.  See water quality testing opportunities at Georgia Adopt-A-Lake, at Secchi Dip-in and at World Water Monitoring Day (surface water sampling kits which includes a secchi decal are availble for $20 with shipping). Please register your lake and pass the word.

Georgia's Draft Comprehensive Statewide Water Management Plan is available for review.

Georgia is one of two States that does not directly allocate Section 319 Nonpoint Source funds to nonprofit conservation organizations. Only Georgia's government agencies are allocated Section 319 funds for water quality enhancement project, education and monitoring. Please visit our program link to send a clear message to Georgia's legislators to correct the statue to allow nonprofits to apply for 319 Nonpoint Source grants.